Monday with Suzy Klein - Joyce DiDonato, Arcadia, Tchaikovsky's The Storm
Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, plus mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato lists her influences and inspirations.
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this week the world famous mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato reveals the people, places and ideas that have inspired her throughout her life and illustrious career. Joyce leads the cast in the UK premiere of Jake Heggie's powerful opera about the American justice system and capital punishment, "Dead Man Walking", which is broadcast on Radio 3 on Saturday 26th May.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata No 40 in E flat major, H XVI 25
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.- CHANDOS.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Bourree Fantasque
Music Arranger: Charles Koechlin. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Heinz Holliger.- Koechlin: Orchestral Works.
- SWR.
- 14.
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Libby Larsen
Aubade
Performer: Eugenia Zukerman.- DELOS.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Storm
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- PHILIPS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Rondo in G major, Op.129, 'Rage over a lost penny'
Performer: Ronald Brautigam.- Beethoven: Piano Music - Brautigam.
- Etcetera.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Wasps (Overture)
Conductor: Andr茅 Previn. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- Vaughan Williams: Symphony no.2 etc: LSO/Previn.
- RCA.
- 6.
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George Frideric Handel
Let thy hand be strengthened
Choir: Choir of King's Consort. Orchestra: King's Consort. Conductor: Robert King.- Hyperion.
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Time Traveller: Arcadia
Duration: 03:58
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John Foulds
Keltic Suite, Op 29
Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- J Foulds, Keltic Suite: 麻豆约拍 Concert Orchestra/Corp.
- Epoch.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Op.112
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Gustav Holst
Suite in E flat major for military band, Op 28 No 1
Orchestra: Dallas Winds. Conductor: Howard Dunn.- Holst: Hammersmith and Suites: Dallas Wind Symphony.
- Reference Recordings.
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Cultural Inspirations: Joyce DiDonato on Safaris
Duration: 02:22
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Africa Fantasie, Op.89
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- Hyperion.
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Robert Schumann
Adagio and Allegro, Op 70
Performer: Marcello Rota. Performer: Daniel L茅vi.- EDELWEISS.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Magnificat primo 脿 8 (Selve morale e spirituale)
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- NAIVE : OP-30557.
- NAIVE.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet in G minor, K.516 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Philip Dukes. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Mozart: String Quintets; Nash Ensemble, Philip Dukes.
- Hyperion.
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Adolf Schulz-Evler
Arabesques on a theme from 'The Beautiful Blue Danube'
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- DECCA.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture in D major, TWV.55:D18
Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- Telemann: Orchestral Suites.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Leonard Bernstein
Mambo (West Side Story)
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- Bernstein: West Side Story: Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Bernstein.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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